Loren notes, good-naturedly in a video, that he was, “left-handed before the accident, so there’s no loss there.”Ĭurrently, with over 250,000 combined followers around the world on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Twitter, and over 30-million views altogether, the couple has been flooded with comments and questions. “The forklift didn’t cut me in half, but crushed every bone in my pelvis down to my feet along with the muscle in my forearm.”Ī hemicorporectomy was done, along with the amputation of his right arm below the elbow. He expects to get a prosthetic arm that will have movement directed by his upper arm muscles. “I knew I’d lose all these limbs pretty much,” he said. Sabia said, “and he looked them in the eye and said he didn’t care … they were going to keep him alive.” “They explained about the surgery and that he could die,” Loren had been taken off sedation at the time and gave his approval for the amputation being suggested as the only possibility to save his life.
I could hear them pushing my ribs back into place, then I passed out.”įrom there, he was flown by Mercy flight to Harborview, where the coincidence of a retired doctor familiar with Loren’s type of injury happened to be in the area and was willing to come in to do a consult. “I looked down and saw the bones sticking out of my legs. “They gave me anesthesia and cut my clothes off,” he said. "The hardest part was breathing, because it felt like my breathing was restricted.”Ī helicopter showed up, transporting him first to a Bozeman emergency room. He chuckles slightly as he tells his story on YouTube. “I lay there 10 to 15 minutes because they had to get a bigger machine to lift the forklift off me.” “I was conscious the entire time,” he said. Loren describes how a combination of factors led to him becoming pinned beneath a forklift that had, “rolled onto a pile of soft dirt.” It has highlighted their love as the core from which they say they keep their future in sight. In the days that followed, she would learn what had happened, and be a part of Loren’s decision to have what can only be described as a radical amputation, but which has now, five months later, become their new normal. She then began the flight to get there, accompanied by his mother.
He was being flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. At that time, Sabia received a call saying that Loren had been injured in a construction accident at his worksite in a remote area near Wilsall about 30 miles north of Livingston.
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